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Item:151864691222From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaAli Sina may refer to:Abu Ali Ibn Sina (Avicenna (980–1037), Persian philosopher, physician, and scientistBu-Ali Sina University, a university in Hamedan, IranAli Sina (activist), pseudonym of the founder of Faith Freedom International, a secularist website with critiques of Islam"Avicenna" is the Latinate form of Ibn Sīnā. For the mountain peak known by this name, see Ibn Sīnā Peak.Avicenna (Ibn Sīnā ابن سینا)Conventional modern portrait (on a silver vase, Avicenna Mausoleum and Museum,Hamadan)Other namesSharaf al-MulkHujjat al-HaqSheikh al-RayeesIbn-Sino (Abu Ali Abdulloh Ibn-Sino)Bu Alī Sīnā (بو علی سینا)Bornc. 980 CE Afshona, Peshkunskiy, Bukhara,Samanid EmpireDiedJune 1037 (aged 56–57) Hamadān, Kakuyid EmirateEraIslamic Golden AgeRegionSamanid Empire[1]Ziyarid Tabaristan[2]Buyid Persia[3]Main interestsMedicineAromatherapyPhilosophy and logicKalām (Islamic theology)SciencePoetryMajor worksThe Book of HealingThe Canon of MedicineInfluenced by[show]Influenced[show]Avicenna (Ibn Sīnā)The Canon of MedicineThe Book of HealingHayy ibn YaqdhanCriticism of Avicennian philosophyUnani medicinevteAvicenna (/ˌævɨˈsɛnə/; Latinate form of Ibn-Sīnā (Persian: پور سینا / ابن سینا ; Arabic: ابن سینا ), full name Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Al-Hasan ibn Ali ibn Sīnā[4] (Arabic: أبو علي الحسين ابن عبد الله ابن سينا; c. 980 – June 1037) was aPersian[5][6][7][8] polymath who is regarded as one of the most significant thinkers and writers of the Islamic Golden Age.[9] Of the 450 works he is known to have written, around 240 have survived, including 150 on philosophy and 40 on medicine.[10]His most famous works are The Book of Healing – a philosophical and scientificencyclopedia, and The Canon of Medicine – a medical encyclopedia.[11][12][13] which became a standard medical text at many medieval universities[14] and remained in use as late as 1650.[15] In 1973, Avicenna's Canon Of Medicine was reprinted in New York.[16]Besides philosophy and medicine, Avicenna's corpus includes writings on astronomy,alchemy, geography and geology, psychology, Islamic theology, logic, mathematics, physicsand poetry.[17]Condition: excellent condition